Real Madrid scraped a 3-2 last minute win over Huesca on Sunday with Zinedine Zidane suffering on from the bench.
Defender Alvaro Odrizola claimed after the game that his team play for their lives in each match, despite the poor performance.
“We’re very happy with the win, it was a tough game. All the teams come here to make it hard for us, at the end of the day they’re playing for life and death, but so are we too,” said Madrid defender Alvaro Odriozola.
“We have to admit there are things we would like to improve but we won and that’s the important thing.
“Very often in football you don’t know why things you your way and sometimes they don’t. In the first half they didn’t, in the second they did.
“We lost the ball a lot and that helped them soar and they caused us danger. We didn’t shine as brightly as on other occasions but we had to win and we did, so we’re happy.”
On Benzema he said: “I’m not going to go on about Benzema, when we need him he is always there. He’s the best No 9 in the world.”